[opendtv] News: Sununu Seeks To Block FCC Tech Mandates
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- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:39:26 -0500
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Breaking News
Sununu Seeks To Block FCC Tech Mandates
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/9/2007 2:09:00 PM
Republican Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire, a member of the
Senate Commerce Committee. says he is working on a bill that would
block the FCC from imposing "technology mandates" on the
communications industry.
The technology mandate of particular interest to the Senator is the
broadcast flag, which the FCC imposed but was unimposed by the
courts, which said it had exceeded its authority because the
technology was post-transmission.
The bill, which stems from an amendment on a Senate telecom bill that
died in the last Congress, "would prevent the FCC from requiring or
imposing a specific technology, technological standard, solution, or
product on industry."
"The FCC seems to be under the belief that it should occasionally
impose technology mandates," said Sununu in announcing the bill, a
belief he called "misguided." Sununu said his legislation "will
ensure that decisions about the design and development of products
and services to meet FCC rules are made by technology experts, not
government regulators."
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